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USN-4965-2: Apport vulnerabilities

25 May 2021

Several security issues were fixed in Apport.

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Releases

Packages

  • apport - automatically generate crash reports for debugging

Details

USN-4965-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Apport. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:

Maik Münch discovered that Apport incorrectly handled certain information
gathering operations. A local attacker could use these issues to read and
write arbitrary files as an administrator, and possibly escalate
privileges.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Related notices

  • USN-4965-1: python3-problem-report, apport-noui, apport, python-apport, apport-retrace, python-problem-report, apport-gtk, apport-kde, apport-valgrind, dh-apport, python3-apport